Elsbeth Gysi

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Elsbeth Gysi (born March 6, 1923 in Bern ; † February 17, 1997 ibid), von Lupfig , was a Swiss graphic artist , illustrator , draftsman , painter and glass painter .

Life

Elsbeth Gysi was born in Bern as the daughter of Ernst Gysi and Bertha Gysi-Kleiner. Her brother Theo Gysi was three years older and her sister Ruth Morgenthaler-Gysi three years younger. From the late 1920s the Gysi family lived in Köniz . Elsbeth attended primary and secondary school in Köniz and then the subsidiary trading school in Bern THB, where she listlessly received “in addition to solid professional training, also a good general education”. This was followed by the obligatory French year for girls with an officer's family in Geneva. Back in Bern, she took up a job as an office clerk at the Steiger lithography company. Further training in the kindergarten teacher’s seminar at the New Girls’s School Monbijou was followed by various internships in kindergartens and day nurseries. At the age of 26 she found her true calling as an artist while working on a children's newspaper for Nestlé in Vevey .

In 1949 she took courses in free drawing, portrait and illustration at Max von Mühlenen's painting school . The time with the role model Max von Mühlenen should point the way for the work of the rest of her life. For more than 20 years she was connected to him in a kind of apprenticeship and friendship.

In the 1950s, Elsbeth Gysi attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris with her sister Ruth . From 1951 she lived in her parents' house with her sister, who married Walter Morgenthaler in 1959 . She took courses at the arts and crafts school in Bern with G. Keller. She was closely associated with her sister throughout her life. Together they published books and participated in exhibitions. Elsbeth Gysi lived and worked in her parents' house in Köniz until her death in 1997.

She was a member of GSBK and GSMBA .

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After Gysi had already had success with her pictures at various exhibitions, she won first prize with the mural The Letter Messenger in old Bern for the PTT building in Langnau in Emmental . In the decade in question, she was said to be the only woman to win a federal competition that she was able to run herself. She spent the summers of 1954 and 1955 with friends at the Bernese painter Hanni Pfister (1910–1991) on Mallorca . Another public contract in which she was awarded the 1st prize was the sgraffito The Apple Shot at the officers' barracks in Bern, which was an exceptional honor, especially for her as a woman. This work was later so damaged that in 1989 Gysi painted a second version of the theme on four metal plates that were mounted on the wall in the form of an oversized deck of cards. In 1967 she painted a paradise garden on the wooden wall of the youth parlor for the Thomaskirche in Liebefeld . Another work of art in architecture was created in Eisen by Max Roth (* 1954) at the Blindenmoos school complex in Schliern , based on her designs from 1994–1995 . In addition, she worked with book illustrations and glass painting. The bequeathed work is looked after by the Society for the Estate Administration of Swiss Female Artists.

Awards

  • 1955: Scholarship from the De Harris Foundation
  • 1958: 1st federal art grant
  • 1958: Louise Aeschlimann grant
  • 1963: 2nd federal art grant
  • 1966: Award "The best posters of 1966"

In addition, Elsbeth Gysi won numerous competitions for the design of public buildings.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1955: "Young Bernese Artists", Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1967: Christmas exhibition of Bernese painters and sculptors. Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1968: Bernese painter and sculptor. Helmhaus Zurich
  • 1977: "Hommage à Max von Mühlenen ". Art collection of the city of Thun, Thunerhof , Thun
  • 1984: 10th Bern art exhibition. 75 years of GSMBK, Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1986: Section exhibition GSMBK Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 1989: "Modern Swiss stained glass in Einsiedeln", arcades of the monastery square, Einsiedeln
  • 1996: GSBK exhibition, Bern section, Kunsthaus Grenchen
  • 1996: "A4 format, women artists of the GSBK", Stadtmühle Gallery, Bern

Literature (selection)

  • Inga Vatter-Jensen, Anja Vatter: Elsbeth Gysi, 1923–1997: Life and Work . Society for the Estate Administration of Swiss Female Artists, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-9522302-1-9 , p. 112 .
  • Ruth Morgenthaler and Elsbeth Gysi: Bäri: the dog that goes to America . Society for the administration of the estate of Swiss female artists, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-9522302-0-0 .
  • Catherine Schweizer, Elsbeth Gysi: I have a blue piano at home ...: Poetry by women in two and a half millennia . Köniz Art Week, Köniz 1983.
  • Anja Buschow Oechslin: Modern Swiss glass painting in Einsiedeln . Cultural Society of the Canton of Schwyz, 1989.
  • Fred Zaugg, Alexander Egger: Local appointment studio. 101 artists. The Louise Aeschlimann scholarship 1942–1987 . Bernische Kunstgesellschaft, Bern 1989.
  • Dona Galli, Inga Vatter-Jensen: Bernese artists yesterday and today, 1909–1987 . GSBK, Bern 1987.

Web links

Commons : Elsbeth Gysi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inga Vatter-Jensen: Elsbeth Gysi, 1923–1997: Life and Work . Society for the Estate Administration of Swiss Female Artists, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-9522302-1-9 , p. 11-21 .
  2. ↑ Anja Vatter: Elsbeth Gysi, 1923–1997: Life and Work . Society for the Estate Administration of Swiss Female Artists, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-9522302-1-9 , p. 23-27 .
  3. ↑ estate
personal data
SURNAME Gysi, Elsbeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graphic artist, illustrator, draftsman, painter and glass painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1997
Place of death Bern